An auction result is not final until the sale order
Twenty days after Google won the Spirit auction at $10.0M, micro1 noticed a $12.5M all-cash bid with no financing contingency and proof of funds, a $2.5M (25 percent) premium over the winner and $5.0M over the alternate.
Dated 13 Sep 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: strong
In the source's own words
“It describes the price as a $2,500,000 or 25 percent premium over the Successful Bid and a $5,000,000 premium over the Alternate Bid.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)
- Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) and Google; Spirit Airlines: legal or policy, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
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